A new project means an opportunity for a travel. This visit is not to a tourist place, but to one of the industrial areas of Gujarat.
Departure from Bangalore – 21st November 2010
Arriving back at Bangalore – 26th November 2010
Mode of travel was air travel. Now the company travel agent cannot book a particular iternary which has a clubbed ticket. Individual tickets would cost at least 130% more. Weird it seemed, with no choice booked the ticket with personal cost and raised a reimbursement request.
To reach Baroda/Vadodara, No direct flight is available. Options that are available are a stopover flight via Mumbai would be the one with least travel time.
As per the plan, fly to Mumbai on 21st November 2010 and stay overnight at the company guest house and then take 5:20 am flight to Vadodara.
Booked Jet airways tickets for Bangalore to Mumbai with scheduled departure at 18:05 from BIAL. However, inevitably the flight was delayed by half an hour. An overall delay of 55 mins when the flight landed at the Mumbai airport. Took a taxi to the guest house located at Powai. Headed for a dinner and ended up at RODAS in Powai. A nice dinner was followed by a short nap.
Got ready by 3 am and left the guest house by 3:30 am. We just about reached to board the next flight to Vadodara – Jet airways. Reached Vadodara by 7:30 am. Checked in to the hotel, a quick breakfast and was ready to take the cab to the factory at Halol which is about 50 odd kms from the Hotel.
After the day’s work we would leave Halol after 6.30 pm and reach back at the hotel by 8 pm. This routine continued all the five days with very little time to spend in the evening and that too after grueling day at office.
For the return journey on the 26th November 2010, we had already booked the Indigo flight between Vadodara and Bangalore with a stopover at Mumbai. An appreciative fact with the Indigo airlines they are sometimes late to depart, but arrive bang on time or sometimes even ahead of time.
A few pics.
A Gujarathi Thali.
At the Vadodara airport before boarding the Indigo flight
The busy Chatrapati Shivaji domestic terminal at Mumbai.
Entering the Apron from the taxiway at the Bengaluru International Airport
Jet airways flight at the Bengaluru International Airport
Went home by the Vayu vajra service of the BMTC.
Departure from Bangalore – 21st November 2010
Arriving back at Bangalore – 26th November 2010
Mode of travel was air travel. Now the company travel agent cannot book a particular iternary which has a clubbed ticket. Individual tickets would cost at least 130% more. Weird it seemed, with no choice booked the ticket with personal cost and raised a reimbursement request.
To reach Baroda/Vadodara, No direct flight is available. Options that are available are a stopover flight via Mumbai would be the one with least travel time.
As per the plan, fly to Mumbai on 21st November 2010 and stay overnight at the company guest house and then take 5:20 am flight to Vadodara.
Booked Jet airways tickets for Bangalore to Mumbai with scheduled departure at 18:05 from BIAL. However, inevitably the flight was delayed by half an hour. An overall delay of 55 mins when the flight landed at the Mumbai airport. Took a taxi to the guest house located at Powai. Headed for a dinner and ended up at RODAS in Powai. A nice dinner was followed by a short nap.
Got ready by 3 am and left the guest house by 3:30 am. We just about reached to board the next flight to Vadodara – Jet airways. Reached Vadodara by 7:30 am. Checked in to the hotel, a quick breakfast and was ready to take the cab to the factory at Halol which is about 50 odd kms from the Hotel.
After the day’s work we would leave Halol after 6.30 pm and reach back at the hotel by 8 pm. This routine continued all the five days with very little time to spend in the evening and that too after grueling day at office.
For the return journey on the 26th November 2010, we had already booked the Indigo flight between Vadodara and Bangalore with a stopover at Mumbai. An appreciative fact with the Indigo airlines they are sometimes late to depart, but arrive bang on time or sometimes even ahead of time.
A few pics.
A Gujarathi Thali.
At the Vadodara airport before boarding the Indigo flight
The busy Chatrapati Shivaji domestic terminal at Mumbai.
Entering the Apron from the taxiway at the Bengaluru International Airport
Jet airways flight at the Bengaluru International Airport
Went home by the Vayu vajra service of the BMTC.
